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	Dynamic Himalaya by Valdiya, K. S.
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This monograph aims to apprise readers of the natural events that occurred and the processes that were in operation before the emergence of the giant edifice of the Himalaya. Helping to achieve a clearer understanding of the structural architecture
or makeup, the book purports to highlight the mechanisms and the stages of development of the world’s youngest mountain province. The text is supplemented with exhaustive data, maps, figures and colour photographs. *Contents Many-splendoured mountain; Perspective: Physiographic and environmental;
Protracted cycle of Purana sedimentation; From diastrophism to diastrophism; Era of growing tectonic instability; Collision and welding of India with Asia; Turbulent times: Birth of the ‘King of Mountains’; Evolution of the “Abode of Snows” and evelopment of the Indo-Gangetic basin; Continuing tectonic unrest; References; Glossary. 196pp. (1998) 240 × 158mm ISBN 978817371 0940

Pages : 196